The men were arrested
Tuesday by investigators from the Montgomery County Fire Marshal's Office and
the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, and remained in custody this
morning.

The explosion, the
result of vandalism in which a track hoe ruptured a six-inch pipeline carrying
the highly flammable chemical propylene. The pipeline was operated by Mustang
Pipeline Company.

Authorities said the
vandalism and explosion caused more than $200,000 in damage. No injuries
resulted, but many in New Caney were kept out of their homes for hours until
the leak was brought under control.

Officials said
further investigation will determine whether Crosby and Durrenberger may be
responsible for similar acts of vandalism at other area construction sites
recently (Chron
News, 2004).

Abstract: Four would-be
terrorists hatched a plot to blow up Kennedy Airport and swaths of Queens by
attacking fuel tanks and an underground pipeline - igniting a catastrophic
explosion that would eclipse 9/11, authorities said yesterday.

One of the suspects
boasted to a federal informant that "he had a vision that would make the
World Trade Center attack seem small," according to the criminal
complaint.

The ringleaders were
identified as a four men from Guyana and Trinidad, and included a Guyanese
politician and a former airport worker.

Three suspects have
been arrested. One was busted in New York on Friday and was awaiting
arraignment in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.

Investigators said
the cabal - which had ties to Jamaat Al Muslimeen, an extremist Muslim group in
Trinidad - had not yet bought explosives but posed a credible threat. They had
taken video of the airport and obtained satellite photos, the complaint said.

"This was the
real deal," said a source familiar with the alleged plot.

The group "was
very familiar with the airport and how to access secure areas," another
source said.

The alleged plotters
were identified as Russell Defreitas, who is originally from Guyana and had
worked at Kennedy; Trinidad national Kareem Ibrahim; Abdul Kadir, a former
member of the Guyanese parliament, and Abdel Nur, also from Guyana.

The group's original
plan was to crash an airplane into several other passenger jets on the ground
at Kennedy "to create a catastrophic explosion," a source said.

But the suspects
couldn't recruit enough co-conspirators and changed course, the source said.

They came up with a
new plan: to set off explosions at the airport's fuel farm, a series of storage
tanks, the sources said.

They also were
targeting a massive jet-fuel pipeline that runs from Linden, N.J., through
Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and to the airport.

They hoped an assault
on the so-called Buckeye pipeline - which carries 8 million gallons of jet fuel
and refined petroleum into the city every day - would kill thousands by causing
explosions through residential sections of Queens.

At a meeting last
year with an informant, Defreitas confided "he had a vision that would
make the World Trade Center attack seem small," the complaint said.

Defreitas allegedly
told the informant that Kennedy Airport, one of the busiest hubs in the world,
was chosen because of its symbolic connection to the slain president.

"They
\[Americans\] loved John F. Kennedy like he was the man. If you hit that, this
city will be in mourning. It's like you can kill the man twice," he said,
according to the complaint.

The suspects were
under surveillance for a year before the three arrests made here and overseas.

"We had them on
conspiracy long ago," a law enforcement source said, adding that the feds
didn't move in more quickly because wanted to see whether the probe targets had
ties to Al Qaeda.

Any links to
established terror networks were unclear.

"There are a
couple of shadowy figures in the background," a government source said.
"Whether those Al Qaeda connections were real or not, we don't know."

Authorities decided
to step in and round up the suspects because some of the plotters were expected
to travel soon.

The investigation was
conducted by the FBI, NYPD, Port Authority Police and U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.

In a statement, the
company that owns the Buckeye pipeline praised investigators for bringing the
plot to light.

"We have been
kept fully informed and apprised of this potential threat from the very
beginning," said Roy Haase of the Buckeye Pipe Line Co. "We are of
course very pleased that this threat has been thwarted and those responsible
apprehended" (NY Daily News, 2012).

Title: U.S.
Man Found Guilty In Alleged Plot To Blow Up Pipelines Date: July 13, 2007Source:Niagara Gazette

Abstract: A Pennsylvania man
who claimed he had been trying to root out terrorists on the Internet was
convicted Friday of trying to help al-Qaida blow up U.S. oil pipelines and
refineries.

Michael C. Reynolds, 49, was found guilty of charges that included providing
material support to terrorists. He told jurors that he was working as a private
citizen trying to uncover nefarious plots while visiting Internet chat rooms
frequented by Islamic extremists.

Reynolds was arrested in December 2005 after authorities said he tried to meet
with a man he thought was an al Qaida contact at an Idaho motel. The contact
turned out to be a Montana judge who was working for the FBI.

Prosecutors said Reynolds wanted to work with al-Qaida to target a Wyoming
natural gas refinery; the Transcontinental Pipeline, a natural-gas pipeline
that runs from the U.S. Gulf Coast through Pennsylvania to New York and New
Jersey; and a Standard Oil refinery in New Jersey that no longer exists.

Reynolds thought his plan would help end the war in Iraq because troops would
have to be recalled to help guard America's energy infrastructure, prosecutors
said. Reynolds also owed child support and may have been motivated by greed,
they said.

At the meeting in Idaho, Reynolds expected to receive $40,000 to finance the
alleged plot, according to court documents (Niagara
Gazette, 2007).